Poor old Koji Suzuki

It seems that at every opportunity to do so, Koji Suzuki (author of the original Ring trilogy and Dark Water novels) gets fucked over by the film industry. Not content with continually making up new sequels to his first book Ring despite the fact he himself has written two sequels, they are now misleading people in the advertising for the new film Skeleton Key.

When I first saw the posters plastered all over buses for the film with the tag line "From the writer of the Ring" I was reasonably intrigued, I thought someone must have taken a Koji Suzuki novel which hasn't actually been made into a film in Japan and made a film out of it, rather than waiting for Hideo Nakata to make the film, the remaking it for the West.

But no, Skeleton Key has nothing at all what-so-ever to do with Koji Suzuki, when the say "From the writer of the Ring" they actually mean "From that guy who rewrote the original Ring movie for an American audience".

So spare a thought for poor old Koji Suzuki. If there are any hot shot directors out there reading this; maybe you could phone him up to discuss buying the rights to make Loop, the third book in the Ring trilogy, into a film.